Does your camera have a built-in HDR mode or are you post-processing on a PC?

Of the images posted, only the first image of Maroon Bells is an HDR photo, and even that shot it wasn't really required to acheive the dynamic range of the scene. The rest of the photos are single images edited in Lightroom 4, which is a great tool in bringing out the best in Raw photos. I'm shooting with a Nikon D800, and its files are incredibly great to work with post capture.

Pretty much any service that allows embedding can be used. Lots of people use flickr. I have my own webserver, so for me it's not a problem linking.

Other considerations is to use a resolution that wont break screensize or if any people are still on the adsl and will consider it huge, and if you want a really large image, either do a smaller and link the larger or post a link to the larger version.

TheEmrys wrote:Went to the Greeley Model Railroad Museum and snapped a few shots, and fell in love with shot. No PP at all.

Nice work! I visited that museum a couple years ago -- I think I might have left a few shots a few pages back in the thread -- but didn't get anything quite like that, especially not with the motion blur.

Went out shooting in the falling snow with a new (to me) lens. I got an Industar 50-2 on eBay for $22 shipped from Russia, then bought an $8 M42->EOS adapter so I can use it on my T1i. It's a 50mm f/3.5 lens, so it's not especially fast, but it'll likely be my go-to lens from now on as it's so much smaller than my other lenses and I find the quality better than the 18-55mm kit lens.

Only had one picture I was happy with from ~20 shots, but it was also 11pm here, so it might've been a bit dark and I'm not the best with manual focus yet. My hands also aren't steady enough for exposures over 1/30 unless I'm really lucky, and I wasn't. I won't post the picture as even it wasn't very good, but some of the other test shots I've taken with the lens have really impressed me when compared against the kit lens.

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All the shots are straight off the camera, with the only bit of PP being a slight change to the colors, but that wasn't applied to all photos. Most were shot @ f/3.5, but that doesn't get written to the EXIF data and I wasn't really paying attention and recording it as I took shots.

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Older Alfa-Romeo Convertible. I didn't stop to check model/year as I was in a bit of a rush.

I was only there for about 15 minutes, and have a few more shots to post to flickr eventually. Definitely missed some stuff. Everything was shot on a Canon T1i with a SMC Pentax 55mm f/1.8. The Alfa was definitely shot at f/2.8, but the Porsche may've been f/4 or f/5.6.

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Well I am impressed with the Fuji XF lenses. I have shot quite a bit through my XF 60mm Macro which is a 90mm, 35mm format equivalent, and I am very pleased.

I am going to bit the bullet on the XF 14mm 2.8 in a couple of days, a 21 mm equivalent , not at all cheap but there are few finer lenses. It will be my first real wide lens and I am looking forward to it.

Bread was just made and will be part of tomorrow's breakfast. I'm super excited as this recipe is awesome.

New camera bag. I've had a Timbuk2 backpack for 2 years now and it's by far the best backpack I've ever owned. When I saw a bag I'd been eyeing on sale I bought it and, with the addition of foam and felt, have a good bag to carry camera + lenses + laptop + accessories. Also comes with bottle opener, because who doesn't need one of those.

I just snagged a macro off of ebay and without any sort of macro experience or anything interesting to shoot, I am thrilled with the sharpness and bokeh. This will be a keeper. Now to learn how to do macro.

I find that shot of the water bottle intriguing. The combindation of the shallow depth of field, focal point, and perspective make the bottle seem to be floating just a bit off the table. Its one of those shots that shows the interesting pictures you can get from everyday objects. Oh, and now I want a beer!

In the most technical sense, macro photography is taking a picture where the image on the sensor is life size (1:1 reproduction ration) or higher. So, for a APS-C sensor, a standard US postage stamp would fill the frame top to bottom. In the more general sense, a lot of folks would consider an image where the final image being at or larger than life size to be macro photography. This is obviously a lot more nebulous and depends as much on the image/film resolution and final print size as it does the lense.